Cant Improve Framerate......

[Sect. 8]

Ive been running Battlefield 2 at 1280X960@70Hz with everything on high except Lighting and Dynamic Light (medium) with 2x AA. The game is playable, but during heavy action the framerate dips to about 30-40. This began to annoy me so I decided to swtich everything to medium, turn off AA, and drop the resolution to 1024X768@70Hz, and to my surprise the framerate didnt improve at all. In fact, during heavy action it dipped to about 27-30fps.

Nothing is overheating. Left Speedfan open and my graphics card never goes over 44 degrees. Have all the latest drivers fro ATi and nforce. Dont have Vsync on, and AGP fastwrite is disabled. Even messed around with the AGP aperature, set on 256 now. Anyone else ever have this happen? I ran 3dMark05 and at 1024x768 I got 5,812 marks. When I ran it at 1280x1024 I got 4,799. So at least that made sense.

Specs:
AMD64 3200+Clawhammer
1gb PC3200
ATI X800XT AIW
DFI Lanparty UT nf3 250g
Antec NeoHE 500W

[ptegan]

Re: Cant Improve Framerate......

Once or twice after changing the gfx settings was forced to delete the 'cache' folder in /my docs/BF2/ before the system would take into account the changes I had made.

[JCFast]

Re: Cant Improve Framerate......

I once tried to decrease my settings to everything LOW and it didn't affect fps but the graphics got worse though.

Everything went right after reinstall of BF2, new patch or cache delete, can't remember which one.

[Sect. 8]

Re: Cant Improve Framerate......

Already tried a re-install (after I cleared the cache folder and tried to play). Im sure the settings took. Can tell the difference between 1280x1024 and 1024x768.

[sackynut]

Re: Cant Improve Framerate......

with those specs, during heavy action like a firefight and such, those arent bad FPS, if 30-40 is what you get in intense situations, and you usually get higher. those arent bad, a constat 30 would be, but that is perfectly fine for your specs and your settings (high, with dynamic light etc at medium). I have 1.5gig of ram, an OCed 3200+ and an Oced 6800gs right now and I dip down into the 40's at random times too, its nothing to be worried about, now if this was counter strike 1.6, I would be buying a new computer at the moment, but its bf2, and its hard to run on many computers. Especially at that resolution!

[Sir. Shpox]

Re: Cant Improve Framerate......

Perfectly normal, your running better than most but strange that you didn't notice a increase in Fps. Me thinks ram ?